Tell you Santa Claus was real when you were little?
Mine did.
We aren’t gonna tell baby human Santa Claus is real.
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Yes. It made Christmas magical for a while…
But it comes with a problem and a price: I had told a lot of lies in grade four, before Christmas (and in the summer of that year), so, one day, my mom said we were going to McDonald’s after school. When she picked us up from school I asked if we were still going, and she said, “No. I lied.” I was disappointed, but I understood why lying was wrong.
When I was nine, and after Christmas (sometime in the spring), I found out Santa Claus wasn’t real, I asked my mom why it was okay for her to lie, but not me. She said, “Santa Claus is different.”
I said, “No, it’s not. You’re a liar.” If I had been old enough to know what hypocrisy was, I would have used that word in a scathing way. I was so angry and disappointed.
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Mine told me the truth and I wasn’t happy 
Yeah… @anon70814080
I feel like I could cause more problems than help…
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Yeah, my mom told me Santa was real. I noticed that Santa liked kids from wealthier families better than he liked me. They got much nicer gifts. I resented him for it.
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Damn @shutterbug
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Life is challenging when you’re dirt-poor. Other kids would have expensive food in their lunches. I was lucky if I had lunch and it would sometimes be whatever was in the food hamper. I remember one day when my lunch was a can of escargot that came in a food hamper. That was it. And I had to ask a teacher for a can opener.
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Yes, we thought he was real until about age 4.
Tell your children that Santa is real. They are only kids once. They have their whole life to be adults. Make that magic.
Besides, the Santa story probably has a germ of truth to it…some generous old man in a small town giving kids presents every December 25th.
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Interesting. Why do you think it’s wrong? You think it’s unfair to keep them under illusions?
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I’m going to qualify this: Don’t tell kids Santa is real if you can’t afford to buy Santa presents. There were years when Santa didn’t give me a present at all. It’s really painful to see that Santa doesn’t like you as much as other kids.
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Are you talking to me?
If so, then yeah you could say that.
I would honestly like to do the whole putting out cookies and secretly putting presents out on Christmas Eve…
But I think in the end there’s more cons than pros
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also I don’t think I could stand to lie to baby human like that, same lie every year until they find out the truth…
Idk.
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Pretending is a huge part of child development. Encouraging your kids to pretend play is very important. The trick is to dial it back if you see it becoming unhealthy.
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Yeah I can understand not wanting to do it
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Yes they did. Then one christms when I was 7 years old, I came down stairs in the middle of the night and found them putting presents under the tree.
I wasn’t mad, but thats when i found out santa wasnt real.
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I had the same experience. My siblings were wrapping presents. I continued to pretend for a while longer.
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I found out pretty young that Santa wasn’t real. I don’t remember how. When I was around 5 my friends parents left out a beer and a cookie for Santa. I thought it was funny that their dad left out a beer for himself. My 12 year old nephew told me he found out at school either this year or last. Some girl told him a story that she ruined her sisters holiday by spilling the beans when they were fighting. He was like wait, what? Lol. He told me he only knew the tooth fairy wasn’t real. I couldn’t believe it.
Yes, i found out the sad news of his existence in Sunday school.
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